Need some input on abortion?

Question

Pro Choice or Pro Life and why? Need some objective input on both sides.

Answer 1

I assume that means you want to know the arguments. I won't used the word "I" again, because I'm going to be objective like you asked for.

Pro choice arguments are based on the idea that pregnancy is exclusively a personal issue because it has such serious affects on a woman's health and body and so forth.
Pro life arguments are based on the idea that aborting a fetus is killing a human life, and thus massively immoral and illegal and outweighs the woman's issues.
Pro choicers are concerned with individual liberty for the mother and don't want the government to be legislating morality.
Pro lifers are concerned about destroying human life.
The question really hinges on when a fetus becomes a human life. If human life begins at conception, abortion should always be illegal because premeditated killing of a human being is murder. If human life begins sometime after conception, then abortion should be legal within that interval, because nonhumans don't have rights, so the mother has sovereign rights over her body.

Answer 2

I strongly believe that it shouldn't be used as a form of birth control...ie always get pregnant and always get an abortion. At the same time I believe that it is a womans choice. The government has no right to tell us what we can do with our own bodies. I do however think that the potential father should have more input about the decision, unless it was a rape. I could go on and on about this...In the end it comes down to being a personal decision.

Answer 3

Personally, I am pro-life. Here's why. I value life. If I make a woman pregnant, it is because I choose to have sex with her - nothing is 'accidental'. I hold myself responsible for my actions, and I am responsible for the life I created with the woman I choose to have sex with. And I love children - these little rascals, even if they're not my own, can make my day just by seeing them play and laugh. It is the joy of life.

So, if the child is mine, I choose to preserve it's life, and I will encourage the woman to keep the child, and I will support both her and the child. Therefore, I am pro-life.

However, I don't care about other people's lives - they can do whatever they want, as long as they don't mess with mine.

Also, if you see what is done to a fetus during an abortion, whether it is partial birth or not, you will lose your stomach. They destroy the fetus - the fetus is butchered (cut up into little pieces) either within the womb or while it comes out partially (in partial birth abortion) - the brains are sucked out by vacuum action by means of a tube that is inserted into the skull of the fetus.

Because of the above reason, I believe that abortion should be only done if the woman is raped, or if a normal birth would harm her. However, making abortions illegal won't stop people from performing abortions. I think people should be educated about the abortion procedure before they make a choice.

Answer 4

Boy will this one generate a lot of respones.

It comes down to one thing for me - is an embryo a living thinking child or is it a mass of cells with no life outside the mother.
If you believe a child you will be Pro Life, since all life should be protected.
If you believe cells you will be Pro Choice, since a person (the mother) is more important then some cells.

Me I am the odd one, I believe that we are all given the right to choose everything we do, good or bad. So pro-choice. But I believe that an embryo is a child and should be protected. So pro life. I wish that everyone would choose to keep and protect their children but I am not a person who want to force my thoughts on others.

Answer 5

Pro-choice, for a number of reasons.

1) science tells us that life does not begin at the moment of conception. Any argument to the contrary stems from a religious standpoint, and religious dogma has no place in the laws of a country that believes in separation of church and state.

2) Making abortion illegal will not end abortion. You'll just see a lot more women dying from botched back alley abortions.

3) Women are not incubators. Every woman owns her body and has the right to make her own medical decisions. A zygote or fetus which is not alive does not take precedence over the woman.

4) The effects of making abortion illegal would be disastrous. In addiction to seeing a lot more infanticide, the country would have a lot more people living in poverty, having found themselves in a situation in which they are not financially prepared for. And poverty leads to desperation, which leads to crime.

Answer 6

Pro-life because no child deserves to be a "choice" to die.
At the moment of conception all the human DNA is present then that is present at birth. If it's a baby when you want it then it's a baby when you don't.

Pro-choice = Pro-abortion because what are they choosing if not life? Why should we be allowed to choose to kill a baby in the first place?

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Answer 7

Pro-Abortion.

1. A fetus is NOT a child and a fetus is NOT a human being. It is a part of the female's body until it is carried to term and can live outside the human body. Until then, it is medically, little more than a parasite and it is a possession of that woman. If a lung or kidney or even a tonsil is brought out of a human being, it is a living human organism and will die outside the human body eventually. Letting a tonsil die is not murder. Removing a fetus is not murder either.

2. A woman's body is NOT the property of the superstitious dogma of obsolete objective moralists.

3. Life is NOT sacred. Human life is NOT sacred. If it was, hand guns and the death penalty would be illegal.Wars would definitely not be started by slacker conservatives looking for a way to feel macho while shedding other people's blood.

4. Human life does not start at conception. Human life starts, individually, as sperm and eggs - gametes which ARE alive, but are disposed of every month through menstrual cycles for females or either nocturnal emissions or masturbation for males. So any boy who has had a wet dream or any girl who has had more than one period is, by the pro-life definition, a serial killer. Pro-lifers tend to move the start of human life to conception out of convenience over reality.

5. In nature, animals that don't want their children either eat them or abandon them in the wild.

Answer 8

Pro choice. This forum does not provide an ample opportunity to fully describe all possible situations for this position. But generally the below represents my reason for being prochoice.

The decision to procreate rests with two people, a man and a woman.

The male gives up his choice when he does not to use protection.

The woman carries the child and absent of input from anyone has the absolute decision to carry the child to term or not.
No one should be forced to carry a child to term against their will.

Equally, no one should be forced to be responsible for a child against their will. See above regarding the male.

Answer 9

I am pro life, but I support legal abortion until 3 months. Having an abortion was the worst decision I ever made. The decision was immature, selfish, irresponsible, and haunts me all the time. I've since read about gestation and abortion. Anything after the first 3 months is clearly murder.

Women will abort no matter what, therefore it should be legal and safe, but only until it becomes a viable life, which thanks to medical technology is moving closer towards right after the first trimester.

Therefore, to balance the two competing rights, it should be legal until 3-4 months. By then a woman has had sufficient time to realize she is pregnant, consider the options, and make a choice.

People like Zenrage cannot face the reality that babies are "life" much earlier than he wishes to admit. A child can be delivered after 4 months, hence, it's alive. A narrow few of life that waits for it to be out of the womb denies scientific reality.

Answer 10

The correct terminology is Pro-Choice and Pro-Birth.

Bus seriously, having an unplanned baby can ruin people's lives, regardless if it's a 15-year-old girl who got drunk at a party or a 47-year-old married woman who got pregnant because their birth control didn't work properly.

In the first case, is it really better to bring a child into this life and be forced to live in poverty, ruining not one but 2 lives? This girl could go on to do great things, go to college, have a family when the time is right, etc.. but instead be forced to have an unwanted baby, stay home and take care of it, go on welfare because she can't afford to work full time and hire daycare for the baby? I've seen it way too many times..

In the second case, this woman is older, the risks of having a baby at that age are higher. Should she endanger her life and that of the baby? What if she can't afford the baby, and it will wreck her marraige and strain on her supporting her other children whom she planned to have accordingly?

I like to say pro-Birth because most of those who claim they are "Pro-Life" could care less what happens to the baby once they have entered this world. They're most often the same ones who talk crap about welfare-moms.

I'm Pro-Choice, but that does not mean abortion is a good thing or that it should be easily or readily available. It should be a last resort, should not be something taken casually or seen as an easy way out from having unprotected sex. I don't agree that it's murder, but it is... disgusting.